"Ball-By-Ball Commentary...": Raghav Chadha On Congress Alliance Talks
NDTV
Friday's discussion between Congress and the AAP was the second in less than a week.
In a development that is likely to come as a relief for the INDIA alliance, two key members, the Congress and the AAP, have met for the second time in less than a week and said that seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha polls are progressing well. Discussions on the allocation of seats in Punjab and Delhi - where the AAP is in power - were seen as possible stumbling blocks for the alliance, along with West Bengal.
Sources have said seat-sharing in Gujarat, Goa and Haryana is also being discussed by the two parties.
Speaking after a two-hour meeting at Congress leader Mukul Wasnik's residence in Delhi on Friday, senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha said in Hindi, "The discussion on an alliance is going very well but it's not like a cricket match where we can give you ball-by-ball commentary. Congress leader Salman Khurshid has spoken to you in detail."
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